Previous Winners
2007 Ed Shapiro
2006 Lynne Cassimeris
2005 Helen Chan
2004 Norman Girardot
2003 Henri J. Barkey and Rajan M. Menon
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Libsch Research Award

A. OBJECTIVES

The Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch Research Award of $2500 will be presented at the annual faculty dinner. The objectives of the award are to:

a. Recognize excellence in research, scholarship and/or artistic achievement, including the overall impact, as well as the quality and quantity of scholarly contributions. b. Reward those who perform distinguished research. c. Place research on an equal footing with teaching and university service in the annual awarding of recognition.

Only faculty members are permitted to submit nominations for this award.The nominations will be reviewed by a Faculty Award Committee who will submit their recommendation to the Senior Officers.

B. CRITERIA

The recipient(s), who must typically have completed at least ten years as a tenure-track faculty at a college, university or in an equivalent position at another type of institution, will be selected on the basis of one or a combination of the following:

1) Extended demonstration of nationally/internationally recognized scholarly excellence. 2) Bringing significant recognition to Lehigh (national/international fellowships, academy Memberships, reviews and/or high profile publicity in national/international media). 3) A major research accomplishment in the last five years (scientific or technological Breakthrough, widely acclaimed book(s), publication or artistic production(s)).

It looks like the time period for accepting nominations for this award ended on 03/24/2008.

Please try again next year or have a look at the available awards.